Look up: caudle

1. Caudle
   Cau'dle noun [ Old French caudel , French chaudeau , dim. of LL calidum a sweet drink, from Latin caidus warm. See Caldron .] A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.
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2. Caudle
   Cau'dle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Caudled ; present participle & verbal noun Caudling .] 1. To make into caudle. 2. Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh. [ R.] Shak.
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3. Caudle
   • (v. t.) Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh. • (n.) A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices. • (v. t.) To make into caudle.
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4. Caudle
   Caudle is a warm, thin spiced gruel made with wine and sugar which was given to invalids and women after childbirth.
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5. caudle
   Small, covered, one or two-handled cup with a saucer used for caudle, a spiced gruel of eggs, bread or oatmeal, and wine or ale. Usually intended for invalids or nursing mothers, the cups were made of silver or pottery, principally in the late 18th and early 18th centuries.
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6. Caudle
   A `caudle` is a British thickened and sweetened alcoholic hot drink, somewhat like eggnog. It was popular in the Middle Ages for its supposed medicinal properties. The OED cites the use of the word to 1297. The earliest surviving recipe, from 1300–1325, is simply a list of ingredients: wine, ...
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